A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

Don’t just read words,’ he would tell her as he held up the latest story, ‘devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Of course you can trust me,” Jake Hix said. “We read the same books.

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you’re going to...

I love digging myself into books because the moment I’m drifted from reality, I’m in a different world and I’m a different person.

Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.

Books are absent teachers.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all...

There is nothing political about American literature.

Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

Are you a reader? Well, good for you!

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure…but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our...

Instapaper wouldn’t be of as much value if it weren’t for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.

I write because I’m free,because I can,because I will. I write because I must,because I’m breathing,because I’d go crazy otherwise,because it’s who I am.I write to make a statement,to share my thoughts,to discover myself,to express...

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, ‘To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

Douglas has more books- and comic books- than anyone I know. Still, if you wanted to borrow one, and took it down off the shelf and forgot to mention it to him, Douglas would notice...

If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!

Since a leader cannot rise above his thinking, he must assault his limiting beliefs daily thru reading, listening & associating.

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don’t, halfway...

To put an arrogant ‘famous’ writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with...

Besides, what was more perfect an object than a book? The different rags of paper, smooth or rough under your fingers. The edge of the page pressed into your thumbprint as you turned a new...

When I’m not at the keyboard, I’m generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

A good book is an event in my life.

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.

A book is not just a collection of words, it is a perception portrayed on blank sheets. You know, getting you the feelings of blowing winds and rains and sun and flowers around, the smiles,...

Max never intended to be messy with his writing, which he could read just fine, years later if necessary, even if his teachers couldn’t. He merely found that his active mind tended to move too...

Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.Then write....

John Armato, a Public relations executive, cherishes his growing Library of Candidates. When people ask him if he’s actually read all those books, he asks them if they’ve actually eaten all the food in their...

Reading was and still is my real joy.

I prefer the company of books. When I’m reading, I’m never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be very intimate. Perhaps you know this feeling yourself? The sense that you’re having...

Its better to hold a book between your Fingers than to Hold a Cigarette.

Dreams are illusions where our experiences experience us

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

Good listeners always hear something novel

Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live...

You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

If we’re lucky, writer and reader alike, we’ll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we’ll ponder what we’ve just written or read;...

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being...

It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right to spend...

When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.

I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story was called fact, and a made-up story was called ficton. Auntie May said...